2014 European Parliament election in Poland explained

Election Name:2014 European Parliament election in Poland
Country:Poland
Type:parliamentary
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:2009 European Parliament election in Poland
Previous Year:2009
Previous Mps:List of members of the European Parliament for Poland, 2009–14
Next Election:2019 European Parliament election in Poland
Next Year:2019
Seats For Election:All 51 Polish seats to the European Parliament
Election Date:25 May 2014
Elected Mps:members
Turnout:23.83%[1]
Leader1:Danuta Hübner
Party1:Civic Platform
Alliance1:European People's Party
Last Election1:44.43%, 25 seats
Seats1:19
Seat Change1: 6
Popular Vote1:2 271 215
Percentage1:32.13%
Swing1: 12,30%
Leader2:Zdzisław Krasnodębski
Party2:Law and Justice
Alliance2:European Conservatives and Reformists
Last Election2:29.35%, 15 seats
Seats2:19
Seat Change2: 4
Popular Vote2:2 246 870
Percentage2:31.78%
Swing2: 2,43%
Leader3:Wojciech Olejniczak
Party3:Democratic Left Alliance (Poland)
Alliance3:Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
Last Election3:12.34%, 7 seats
Seats3:5
Seat Change3: 2
Popular Vote3:667 319
Percentage3:9.44%
Swing3: 2,90%
Color4:38ABE2
Leader4:Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Party4:Congress of the New Right
Alliance4:Non-Inscrits
Last Election4:
Seats4:4
Seat Change4: 4
Popular Vote4:505 586
Percentage4:7.15%
Swing4: 7,15%
Leader5:Janusz Piechociński
Party5:Polish People's Party
Alliance5:European People's Party
Last Election5:7.01%, 3 seats
Seats5:4
Seat Change5: 1
Popular Vote5:480 846
Percentage5:6.80%
Swing5: 0,21%

The 2014 European Parliament election in Poland elected the delegation from Poland to the European Parliament. It took place on 25 May 2014.[2] [3] The Polish electorate will elect 51 MEPs, compared to 50 in the 2009 election. (In December 2011, under the terms of the Lisbon Treaty, one additional MEP from the People's Party entered the Parliament,[4] bringing the number of Polish MEPs to 51). The number of MEPs is a result of the 2013 reapportionment of seats in the European Parliament. This means that Poland will have 6% of the total seats in the European Parliament.

MEPs by European Political Group (as at 30 January 2014)

Civic Platform24 European People's Party274
Polish People's Party4
Law and Justice7 European Conservatives and Reformists56
Poland Together4
Independent1
Democratic Left Alliance5 Socialists & Democrats195
Labour United1
Your Movement1
United Poland4 Freedom & Democracy33

Contesting committees

NameIdeologyEuropean Union positionLeaderMain candidate[5] Alliance2009 resultCurrent seats
Vote (%)Seats
Civic Platform (PO)Centrism, catch-allHard pro-EuropeanismDonald TuskDanuta HübnerEPP44.4%
Law and Justice (PiS)Right Wing of the Republic
• Piast
National conservatism, Christian democracySoft EuroscepticismJarosław KaczyńskiZdzisław KrasnodębskiECR29.4%
Democratic Left Alliance (SLD)Labor UnionSocial democracy, third wayHard pro-EuropeanismLeszek MillerWojciech OlejniczakS&D12.3%
Polish People's Party (PSL)Agrarianism, Christian democracyHard pro-EuropeanismJanusz PiechocińskiGrzegorz BenedykcińskiEPP7.0%
United Poland (SP)Solidarism, social conservatismSoft EuroscepticismZbigniew ZiobroEFDstyle="text-align:center;"-
Poland Together (PR)Conservative liberalism, economic liberalismModerate pro-EuropeanismJarosław GowinECRstyle="text-align:center;"-
Europa Plus (E+)Your Movement
Alliance of Democrats
Democratic Party – demokraci.pl
Polish Labour Party
Social Democracy of Poland
Union of the Left
Social liberalism, progressivismEurofederalismJanusz PalikotRyszard KaliszALDE
S&D
GUE-NGL
style="text-align:center;"-
Congress of the New Right (KNP)Right-libertarianism, Laissez-faireHard EuroscepticismJanusz Korwin-MikkeNIstyle="text-align:center;"-
National Movement (RN)National Radical Camp
All-Polish Youth
Real Politics Union
Polish nationalism, right-wing populismHard EuroscepticismRobert WinnickiKrzysztof BosakNIstyle="text-align:center;"-
Political parties, coalitions of political parties, and nonpartisan citizens wishing to nominate candidates for the election were obliged to establish election committees and announce their creation to the State Electoral Commission until 7 April 2014. Establishment of an independent committee required signatures of at least 1,000 registered voters. 20 committees were established.[6]

The committees were able to register lists of 5 to 10 candidates in each electoral district until 15 April. Each list had to be supported by signatures of at least 10,000 voters residing in the district. However, a committee that had collected enough signatures in at least 7 electoral districts were allowed to register lists in the remaining districts regardless of local support.

As of 24 April, the State Electoral Commission has confirmed that 9 committees registered candidates in all 13 constituencies.[7] Additionally 3 committees of political parties registered lists of candidates in fewer electoral districts:[7] 8 committees failed to submit lists or collect signatures:

Leaders by constituency

ConstituencyPO[8] PiS[9] SLD-UP[10] PSL[11] E+[12] PRJG[13] SP[14] KNP[15] RN[16]
Janusz LewandowskiAnna FotygaLongin PastusiakAndrzej StępniakDorota GardiasStefan HamburaKrzysztof SteckiewiczArtur Dziambor
Jan Vincent-RostowskiKosma ZłotowskiJanusz ZemkeEugeniusz KłopotekKazimiera SzczukaMaciej MarzecIreneusz StachowiakJacek KostrzewaMarta Cywińska
Barbara KudryckaKarol KarskiTadeusz IwińskiStanisław ŻelichowskiMałgorzata KowalskaJacek ŻalekMaciej MojzesowiczAndrzej WyrębekPiotr Lisiecki
Danuta HübnerZdzisław KrasnodębskiWojciech OlejniczakGrzegorz BenedykcińskiRyszard KaliszPaweł KowalJacek KurskiMichał MarusikKrzysztof Bosak
Julia PiteraWojciech JasińskiAnna KalataJarosław KalinowskiAndrzej CelińskiMarek CzarneckiLudwik DornKrzysztof SzpanelewskiWitold Tumanowicz
Jacek Saryusz-WolskiJanusz WojciechowskiWeronika MarczukMieczysław ŁuczakEwa WójciakJohn GodsonTadeusz WoźniakAdam WochMaciej Migus
Agnieszka Kozłowska-RajewiczRyszard CzarneckiKrystyna ŁybackaAndrzej GrzybMarek SiwiecDariusz LipińskiAndrzej DeraZygmunt KopaczBartosz Józwiak
Michał KamińskiWaldemar ParuchJacek CzerniakArkadiusz BratkowskiBarbara NowackaAndrzej StanisławekJarosław ŻaczekJan SzymonaMarian Kowalski
Elżbieta ŁukacijewskaTomasz PorębaTomasz KamińskiWładysław Kosiniak-KamyszMarta NiewczasKazimierz JaworskiMieczysław GolbaWaldemar ZarębskiMarcin Siembida
Róża ThunRyszard LegutkoJoanna SenyszynCzesław SiekierskiJan HartmanJarosław GowinZbigniew ZiobroStanisław ŻółtekRobert Winnicki
Jerzy BuzekBolesław PiechaAdam GierekStanisław DąbrowaKazimierz KutzMarek MigalskiTomasz AdamekJanusz Korwin-MikkeArtur Zawisza
Bogdan ZdrojewskiDawid JackiewiczLidia Geringer de OedenbergIlona Antoniszyn-KlikRobert KwiatkowskiArtur ZasadaBeata KempaRobert IwaszkiewiczAleksander Krejckant
Dariusz RosatiMarek GróbarczykBogusław LiberadzkiJolanta FedakPaweł PiskorskiMarek ZagórskiRobert StankiewiczStefan OleszczukSylwester Chruszcz

Opinion polls

SourceDatePiSPOSLDPSLE+TRPRKNPSPOthers / undecidedLead
TNS Polska23 May 201426%24%7%7%3%2%4%3%26%2% over PO
Homo Homini23 May 201430.8%30.2%11.6%4.8%4.0%1.5%5.6%2.1%9.4%0.6% over PO
PPW22 May 201431.3%29.8%10.6%6.8%7.3%4.6%5.7%2.6%1.3%1.5% over PO
Milward Brown22 May 201429%28%9%6%4%2%7%2%2%1% over PO
Estymator22 May 201431%32%11%7%5%5%5%2%1%1% over PiS
Millward Brown20 May 201426%27%8%5%5%3%7%2%17.0%1% over PiS
CBOS20 May 201421%26%8%5%2%2%4%1%31.0%5% over PiS
PPW19 May 201432%29%11%6%8%4%5%3%2%3% over PO
Homo Homini17 May 201428.9%28.0%10.8%4.8%3.8%1.5%5.2%2.2%14.0%0.9% over PO
TNS Polska16 May 201429%27%8%6%6%2%3%2%17%2% over PO
CBOS14 May 201420%21%6%3%2%1%6%2%39%1% over PiS
PPW13 May 201429%27%13%5%8%5%7%4%2%2% over PO
TNS Polska11 May 201427%24%11%5%3%3%7%4%16%3% over PO
Homo Homini 7 May 201430%31%13%7%6%3%5%4%1%1% over PiS
PPW6 May 201430%28%12%6%9%4%5%4%2%2% over PO
Homo Homini2 May 201429.1%27.3%12.7%4.9%4.1%1.9%6.2%1.9%12%1.8% over PO
CBOS30 April 201421%29%6%4%2%4%6%1%27%8% over PiS
PPW29 April 201432%27%10%6%10%6%4%3%2%5% over PO
PPW23 April 201431%29%11%5%8%5%6%3%2%2% over PO
Homo Homini18 April 201428.2%26.6%12.1%5.1%6.2%2.2%3.9%1.7%14.1%1.6% over PO
TNS Polska17 April 201431%27%8%4%4%2%3%2%22%4% over PO
Estymator12 April 201429%33%14%6%4%5%5%2%1%4% over PiS
TNS Polska7 April 201425%26%8%8%6%3%4%4%16%1% over PiS
CBOS26 March 201422%24%7%6%3%4%4%2%27%2% over PiS
Estymator22 March 201433%36%12%5%4%5%2%2%3% over PiS
Homo Homini20 March 201428.3%27.3%10.8%5.0%4.8%2.3%2.8%2.0%1% over PO
TNS Polska11 March 201427%25%8%5%7%3%3%3%17%2% over PO
Homo Homini 2 March 201432%26%17%6%9%3%2%4%1%6% over PO
Estymator21 February 201434%32%11%6%6%5%3%2%1%2% over PO
TNS Polska20 February 201429%19%9%6%5%2%3%2%14%10% over PO
TNS Polska12 February 201425%20%10%6%11%4%3%4%17%5% over PO
Homo Homini20 January 201430%25%20%8%6%5%3%2%5% over PO

MEPs by political group

Civic Platform19 European People's Party204
Polish People's Party4
Law and Justice18 European Conservatives and Reformists44
Right Wing of the Republic1
Democratic Left Alliance4 Socialists & Democrats188
Labour Union1
Congress of the New Right4

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Results of the 2014 European elections - Results by country - Poland - European Parliament. Results of the 2014 European elections - Results by country - Poland - European Parliament.
  2. Web site: Ośrodek Informacji i Dokumentacji Europejskiej. Danuta. oide.sejm.gov.pl.
  3. Web site: Texts adopted - Thursday, 22 November 2012 - Elections to the European Parliament in 2014 - P7_TA(2012)0462. www.europarl.europa.eu.
  4. Web site: Ratification of Parliament's 18 additional MEPs completed. www.europarl.europa.eu.
  5. Leading candidate in Warsaw (if the party leader does not run personally in another district)
  6. Web site: Information from Polish Electoral Commission . 7 April 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140408214422/http://pkw.gov.pl/2014/komunikat-panstwowej-komisji-wyborczej-z-dnia-7-kwietnia-2014-r-o-komitetach-wyborczych-utworzonych-w-zwiazku-z-wyborami-do-parlamentu-europejskiego-zarzadzonymi-na-dzien-25-maja-2014-r.html# . 8 April 2014 . dead . dmy-all .
  7. Web site: Registered election committees. PKW.gov.pl. 24 April 2014.
  8. http://pe2014.pkw.gov.pl/en/komitety/view/44
  9. http://pe2014.pkw.gov.pl/en/komitety/view/47
  10. http://pe2014.pkw.gov.pl/en/komitety/view/38
  11. http://pe2014.pkw.gov.pl/en/komitety/view/46
  12. http://pe2014.pkw.gov.pl/en/komitety/view/39
  13. http://pe2014.pkw.gov.pl/en/komitety/view/37
  14. http://pe2014.pkw.gov.pl/en/komitety/view/35
  15. http://pe2014.pkw.gov.pl/en/komitety/view/42
  16. http://pe2014.pkw.gov.pl/en/komitety/view/45